Exam question 2 · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

Ascertain the principle according to which terms for aunts and uncles are distinguished in Mandarin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, accord, be · To what, where: principle, Mandarin

This is exam question 2 of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 principle	det
3	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 terms	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 according	fixed
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 terms	det
7	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 distinguished	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 aunts	case
9	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 terms	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 uncles	cc
11	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 aunts	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 distinguished	cop
13	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 principle	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Mandarin	case
15	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 distinguished	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the principle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent principle=Topic
2	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			Mandarin	accord which terms for aunts and uncles; distinguished property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By the side of the family and relative age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 age	cc
8	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 age	amod
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No such distinction exists in the language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 distinction	det
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 distinction	amod
3	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exists	nsubj
4	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 language	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 language	det
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	no such distinction			the language			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location

Option 3

By occupation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 occupation	case
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

They are distinguished solely by height and build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 distinguished	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 distinguished	aux:pass
3	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 distinguished	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 height	case
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguished	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 build	cc
8	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 distinguished	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distinguish	present · passive	height	They				solely property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=Theme
2	build	present	height not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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